Quote

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Passion
Wedlock
Woman
Tempest
Harbor
Harbors
Storms
Storm
Protect
Marriage

More quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Image
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Do not crowd the understanding it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The virtuous woman flees from danger she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn